Ray Monk

Ray Monk is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Southampton, where he has taught since 1992. He won the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the 1991 Duff Cooper Prize for Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius. His interests lie in the philosophy of mathematics, the history of analytic philosophy and robots, and philosophical aspects of biographical writing. He is currently working on a biography of Robert Oppenheimer.

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  • Feb 15, 1957 (age 52 years)
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